Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [indef pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 'll probably be easy to eliminate them from the enquiry ; we are n't going to frame anybody or hassle anybody or pull anything heavy . ’ |
| 2 | During the test periods subjects were instructed not to smoke or eat anything but drank water ad libitum . |
| 3 | Tethered in the deep spaces on either side of the stove were the two dogs , Lady and Rosie , one a short-sighted bulldog of uncertain temperament , the other a bloody-minded Great Dane bent on demolishing or devouring everything that came within reach of her snapping teeth . |
| 4 | Ca n't you see that if you were to say or do something that caused my father , for example , to die when he was still a little boy , then I should never get round to being born , should I ? ’ |
| 5 | Kramarae and Treichler quote Rebecca West 's witty remark , that she is n't sure what a feminist is , she only knows men call her that whenever she does or says anything that differentiates her from a doormat . |
| 6 | I mean there 's no earthly use doing a beautiful piece of evaluation erm which no-one wants to know about at the end , or publishing something that has no affect . |
| 7 | We used to drive it into fields or parking lots and open it up to reveal a complete Conservative campaign stage . |
| 8 | So it will tend to pull and it almost definitely is either reaching or pulling or holding something or holding on for your life , |
| 9 | The WFS data confirm earlier findings for developed countries that an infant is least likely to survive one year if its birth followed or preceded one that occurred within 24 months of its own ( Maine and McNamara , 1985 ; Acsadi and Johnson-Acsadi , 1985a , 1985b ; Maine , et al , 1985 ; Rutstein , 1983 , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Any team which can not think of a new rhyme , or repeats one that has been chosen earlier , drops out until only one team is left . |
| 11 | Write a letter to a hotel ( make up a suitable name or choose one that advertises in your local paper ) enquiring about a holiday for two adults and two children . |
| 12 | Political activity here would undermine the credibility of a claimant only if it was designed merely to enhance a claim or to construct one that did not exist . |
| 13 | He had made that mistake already , by accepting Vincente Minnelli 's offer and he knew , at the end of the day , it was not right ; that Sixties way of thinking that rejected anything that had the stamp of establishment on it was also his philosophy . |
| 14 | Afterwards she repented it bitterly , but she was hopeless at apologizing : instead of retracting her feelings , what she always did was to say that she was sorry for expressing them , a kind of amends that costs nothing and carries the built-in rebuke that the other person is unable to bear the truth . |
| 15 | Rather than chase somebody and take away what little respect they have , it 's far better that they go out and maybe get lost for a few minutes and then come back , than have somebody chase them . |
| 16 | Its actions belied Bush 's declaration on Nov. 15 that he preferred to hold this course than to do something that did not work . |
| 17 | The fifty nine pound that looked one that looked |
| 18 | Colt sat at a table outside the café that saw everything that moved in the village . |
| 19 | There 's nothing worse than people just spitting out albums ; you get all these mediocre albums that do nothing but take up shelf space . |
| 20 | In an extraordinary passage towards the end of the book , amplified in discussion at Marxism 90 in a debate specifically convened to discuss Modernism and Postmodernism , Callinicos described his experience of walking around an art gallery : ‘ I have often been struck by the tedium that overcomes one while walking through a gallery of twentieth-century painting arranged in chronological order as one moves from the excitement of the early part of the century to the desperate and all too frequently sterile iconoclasm of recent artists ' ( p. 161 ) . |
| 21 | I do n't want to see inside the castle , I just want to walk around the outside and sketch anything that looks interesting . ’ |
| 22 | By the time we got to Trafalgar Square the crowds were thick on the pavements and cheering anything that moved . |
| 23 | He found himself suddenly reaching out and touching someone or making some wild arm movement without thinking . |
| 24 | Excuse me I just have to rush over here for no real reason and touch something and rush back again . |
| 25 | Erm and then you could have your trade stand where they 've got to come and collect something and answer a question . |
| 26 | As Gabriel was watching , the cart stopped at the top of the hill , and the driver climbed down to go back and fetch something that had fallen off . |
| 27 | D : A daring character who likes nothing more than to crack the whip and digs anything that has a bit of a history connected to it |
| 28 | But there was always them as just wanted to come and do nothing and pick the money up and that 's what they had to sort out the firms . |
| 29 | I fucking come back and try and put something and go what is this man ? |
| 30 | As they drove off , the LRDG boys said that they had heard and seen everything and had just had to stay to the end . |